During an event to announce that the 2026 World Cup draw will be held at the Kennedy Center, President Donald Trump unexpectedly pulled out a photo of him standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Alaska.

Trump said Putin sent the picture and told reporters: “I’m going to sign this for him.”

He added that Putin has “very respectful of me and my country, and not so respectful of others.”

Putin invaded Ukraine more than three years ago, and Trump has been frustrated by his inability to resolve the war and the stalled progress on a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“We’re going to see whether or not they have a meeting,” Trump told reporters. “It’ll be interesting to see. If they don’t, why didn’t they have a meeting, because I told them to have a meeting. But I’ll know what I am going to do in two weeks.”

Trump said he had begun making arrangements for a Putin-Zelenskyy meeting on Monday soon after concluding White House talks with Zelenskyy and European leaders and speaking by phone with Putin.

Russia’s top diplomat, Sergey Lavrov, made clear on Friday that Putin won’t sit-down with Zelenskyy until Ukraine agrees to certain concessions.